What I find interesting is that the High Court let the most
controversial portion of Arizona’s immigration law stand.

Yep, Arizona is now a “show your papers” state.

I wonder if they’ll incorporate that into tourism spots?

Arizona – Come for the sun. Stay for the racial profiling!

Lawd, have mercy.

Anyhoo, folk do need to know that police in Arizona can ask
you for proof of citizenship after they stop you for some other shit.

They can’t arrest you or detain you or deport you for being unable to prove citizenship.

And it isn’t illegal to visit or be in Arizona if you aren’t an
American…yet.

But fuck it if police in Arizona can’t ask you to prove citizenship and then
frown at you and probably mumble something about how you’d best get the fuck
out of the country or they’ll [insert threat they can't back up legally
but that most people probably aren’t aware they can not back of legally ‘cause
your average individual doesn’t dig deep into constitutional law or ponder such
things when pulled over on the side of the road by a cop].

For all the rants from the right about state’s rights, I’ve
never been comfortable with just how different rights are from state to state. We are becoming a union of little nations where you may or may not be able to do something in one state but you sure as shit can do it in another. Sitting pretty in Illinois and asked to show papers in Arizona = bizarre.

That so many celebrate the ability to harass people based on
their visual representation as “other” without the ability to enforce any legal
ramifications says a lot about them…and, sadly, us.

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The whole states rights thing is how the bad guys are now dividing and conquering. They are picking laws apart state by state that is why they are so insistent that states rights take precident over federal law. These people are up all night thinking about new ways to make life hard for folk. It is amazing how much venom they have within. They think this country they stole belongs to them alone.